The latest release of Internet Explorer is a collage of minor improvements and updates that manage to add up to less than the sum of their parts. For example, you'll notice a new image-related toolbar and virus protection, but the most prominent change is the addition of a "Personal" toolbar.

Following a pattern established when Microsoft ripped off Apple's Macintosh GUI for the original release of Windows in 1985, the Internet Explorer team decided to shamelessly rip off Netscape's sidebar. True to form, they only stole the worst aspects of Netscape's design. Combining true inelegance with inflexibility, the "Personal" toolbar sports the latest in Choose-Your-Ad Technology®.